11-17-2013, 02:45 AM
I can remember when, back in the day, I worked for an independent Apple Authorized reseller and we had a customer with a 21" Apple Studio Display that they said would intermittently stop working. None of the other technicians could reproduce the issue, so I hooked it up to my workstation and used it for 2 days. No problem. On the third day it randomly powered off. I turned it back on, and used it for another day without incident. On the fifth day it shut off for the third time randomly and my gut instinct from my observations was that it seemed to happen whenever I closed a window.
So I tried to reproduce this by opening and closing a bunch of windows from the finder. After 20 minutes it occurred again. More windows, caused it to happen in another 5 minutes.
Spent another 20 minutes writing an Applescript to spawn thousands of folders and open them as windows and randomly resize and move them around. This script could reliably cause the problem to occur within a minute.
Sent it off to Apple with the script (which I probably still have a copy of somewhere... but this was before the days of spotlight I'd really have to dig for it as it was more than a decade ago.) Apple replaced the customer's monitor.
Unfortunately, all I got for my efforts are the memories.
So I tried to reproduce this by opening and closing a bunch of windows from the finder. After 20 minutes it occurred again. More windows, caused it to happen in another 5 minutes.
Spent another 20 minutes writing an Applescript to spawn thousands of folders and open them as windows and randomly resize and move them around. This script could reliably cause the problem to occur within a minute.
Sent it off to Apple with the script (which I probably still have a copy of somewhere... but this was before the days of spotlight I'd really have to dig for it as it was more than a decade ago.) Apple replaced the customer's monitor.
Unfortunately, all I got for my efforts are the memories.